Hello again! :)
It is time for another weekly update! So, this week we have been talking about communication. I loved this quote from President Harold B. Lee:
"We want to communicate not just so clearly that we are understood but so clearly that we cannot be misunderstood." - Harold B. Lee
How many times have you said, "that's not what I meant" in the last week? I know that many of us have a hard time articulating what we want to say. This can be critical in a relationships. We talked about how we need to be transparent in marriage and learn to communicate more clearly. It will make the relationship so much better.
Some words have different meanings in different places. For example, I moved from Illinois to Texas when I was a Junior in high school. I have three sisters so there are five girls in my family. The four of us and our mother were going to the store in Texas to get "nylons" but the worker there had no idea what we were talking about. He looked at us like we were crazy! In Texas they are called pantihose. This is a silly example, but demonstrates a point.
In our class we also talked about the math of communication. I know it math, but this is easy math. I'll even add it for you!
The parts of communication:
words--------14
tones---------35
non-verbal--51
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total--------100
These numbers were found from a study done on college students.
So...communication is only 14% of what you actually say and 51% the non-verbal things that you do!
It may take awhile but I know that we can all become good communicators! Good communication is vital to a good relationship!
Hope you all have a great week!
Hello Makayla,
ReplyDeleteI really like that quote from President Lee, this is so important that we practice this! The way to achieve this is that we apply the math communication and by this we will not be misunderstood! Are there areas in your life that you feel that communicating properly is more important?
Thanks
Maddison Dillon
I think that family communication is the most important place to exercise the math communication. These are people that we want to be with forever and we need to build strong bonds of communication. A family is also a great place to practice communication skills. Our families are supposed to love us no matter what and this should be a perfect place to practice being more divine.
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